Children & Teens
Boy in beheading plot among 100 terrorists up for release (LINK ONLY)
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Day: November 8, 2020
Immigration
Over 1,600 migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands, 1 dies
(AP) More than 1,600 migrants have either been rescued at sea or reached Spain’s Canary Islands in small boats over the weekend, emergency services for the archipelago said Sunday. The body of one person who had died during the perilous journey was […]
Clerics & Preachers
French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Muslim voters want more than ‘just a seat’ at the table from President-elect Joe Biden
(LA Times) In the lead-up to the midterm election two years ago, Sara Deen noticed that many fellow Muslims in her South Bay community weren’t voters. Some didn’t understand the process. More lacked faith that their voice would matter or had trouble […]
Government & Politics
US ‘Muslim ban’ set to end ‘on day one’ of Biden presidency President-elect has pledged to immediately halt travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on more than a dozen nations.
(Al-Jazeera) On the first day of his presidency, president-elect Joe Biden intends to rescind Donald Trump’s travel bans on travellers from 13 countries, most either majority-Muslim or African nations. Shortly after taking office in 2017, Trump issued an executive order that banned […]
Government & Politics
French minister seeks to ease tensions over cartoons in Cairo visit
(AFP) French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after the furore surrounding the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Le Drian met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign […]
Legal
Two men arrested in Switzerland visited Vienna attacker in July: paper
(Reuters) The two men arrested in the Swiss town of Winterthur near Zurich last week over possible links to a jihadist shooting attack in Vienna on Nov. 2 visited the attacker in July and he may have visited the Zurich region, Swiss […]
Legal
Attorney general takes charge of investigation into Swiss ties to Vienna attack
(Swiss Info) Next week the federal prosecutor’s office will assume responsibility for criminal proceedings of two men arrested in Switzerland over alleged ties to the Vienna terrorist attacker. The transfer of the case from Canton Zurich to the federal level was confirmed […]